f9 kde conflicts - 3.5, 4.0, 4.1, blah, blah. blah f*&(*&ing blah

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Mads Kiilerich wrote:

> Jerry Amundson wrote:
>> Nope, same error.
>> I assume these package dup's are odd. Next, I may just re-install of
>> this box anyway, rather than attempt fixing...
>> [root at jerry-d600f9 ~]# rpm -qa kde\* | sort
>> kdeaccessibility-4.0.3-3.fc9.i386
>> kdeartwork-4.0.3-3.fc9.i386
>> kdebase3-pim-ioslaves-3.5.10-2.fc9.i386
>> kdebase3-pim-ioslaves-3.5.9-10.fc9.i386
>> 
>
> When I see such double packages then it is usually because an rpm session was 
> interupted after the new package was installed but before the old was cleaned 
> up.
>
> I just remove the old packages:
> package-cleanup --orphans > orph
> vi orph # remove packages I would like to keep
> rpm -e $(cat orph)
>
> (or in case of problems with dependencies I do it one a time with
> for a in $(cat orph); do rpm -e $a; done
> a couple of times)
>
> Or more brutally:
> rpm -qa --qf="%{name}\n" kde* > reinstall
> rpm -e --nodeps $(rpm -qa kde*)
> yum install $(cat reinstall)


might be a good place to try running:

yum-complete-transaction

to see if yum can help out.

-sv